Later this month he’ll emcee the 2015 Academy Awards, and Neil Patrick Harris is deep in the process of making sure he’s up to the task.

While chatting with People, the “How I Met Your Mother” hunk (who has hosted the Emmys twice and Tonys four times) explained, "I've always been keen on diction. And inflection. And pitch. And pace. We reveal a lot about ourselves by the way we communicate verbally. So there's quite a bit of vocal warming up."

Gearing up for the much-anticipated Oscars later this month, a bevy of beautiful people gathered at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday (February 2) for the 87th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon.